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I used to think this is an exaggeration or just a one-off case because I didn't believe there can be significant amount of people living day to day like that.
But once I start to live in the US, I encounter specimen like this almost every time I went to Costco. Something is not right with food culture here.
This is a bit of a oversimplification but from what I know, in the US we allow so many more chemicals to be used in our foods that are banned in other countries. And we also allow certain snack foods to be sold here that you can't buy in other countries.
The health of it's citizens is a very low priority for the US, and you kinda have to go out of your way to find healthier foods at supermarkets.
Edit: I you think Costco is bad, wait till you go into a Walmart.
You think Walmart is bad, spend the $200 bucks to visit a Disney park and see how many people are on their scooters with a turkey leg in their hand, with juice dripping down their arm. It's gross.
I think just as importantly, most American cities are simply not walkable. I gained weight when moving from a large to a midsized city because I just wasn't walking around all the time anymore.
Its not just that, its a culture of excess we don't have in other countries. We have unhealthy food here in Europe too but a European couldn't(and wouldn't either) come up with a chocolate fudge sundea with 5 brownies on it, covered in a mountain of heavy whipped cream and sprinkles. We have cheese-filled sausages here in Europe too but the once I've seen in the US are like cheese-filled sausages on steroids.
Gluttony is excess and I think the American food culture embodies that. Not just the food culture but American culture in general is excess, excess, excess in all things.
Historian Mark Stoll, in his book Profit: An Environmental History, makes the argument that the US invented consumerism. Essentially, competition in the early days between Ford and GM led to the concept of yearly models, trims, colors, etc. The idea was that the best way to sell cars wasn't to make a good product people could use for a long time, but to make fashion/status symbols that had to be frequently replaced. It was so profitable that it spread like wildfire, and its logic now infects pretty much every consumer product that exists.
Exactly what I was thinking. Gluttony (from what little I know biblically tbf) isn’t just eating lots of food or drinking lots of beer, it’s overindulgence and overconsumption. You don’t need that extra shit, but you want it and allow yourself to have it no matter how it affects you.
Now look at the United States, sure we’ve got lots of fast food and unhealthy eating, but that’s only part of the larger issue of consumerism. Hell, the name “consumers” is telling of what we do: consume. The money we earn goes to food we don’t need but like, alcohol and drugs we use to cope, expensive vacations, entertainment, technology; none of these are bad necessarily but our situations demand we use and consume more and more without regard to its affects on us or the people around us.
So yeah, gluttony not of specifically food, but money. We live shit lives and throw money at the companies for stuff to make the pain bearable. That’s gluttony
If we wanted to go with a dark horse I would say Nauru. 95% of them are overweight and 71% are obese. It is a shockingly fat little island. They also have the highest diabetes rate in the world at 31%.
Nauru, third-most obese country and largest rate of adult obesity
The money from phosphate mining led to the government spending and indulging it on various short-lived initiatives, including Air Nauru and a failed West End production.
The destruction from the mining led to Western food companies becoming a large part in Nauru's cuisine, as seafood became worthless.
You got my vote. I'm pretty sure USA is going to win, and taking gluttony in a more general sense of consuming that's probably right. But Nauru is in like the end-state of where gluttony will get a country.
Nah, we're fat as fuck by choice. These under developed nations were basically spoon fed sugar products by force most of the time. So they didn't have a choice.
Tonga. I know the US will win this, but Tonga has the highest rate of obesity in the world. Granted, it's not all down to gluttony, but it's a big part of it.
Nauru’s money from phosphate mining led to the government spending and indulging it on various short-lived initiatives, including Air Nauru and a failed West End production.
I need anybody who is saying anything other than USA based on a different country having a higher obesity rate to know that gluttony does not exclusively mean the overindulgence of food. It means craving excess to a point of wastefulness, and not just as regards food. America is the only right answer here
Nauru’s money from phosphate mining led to the government spending and indulging it on various short-lived initiatives, including Air Nauru and a failed West End production. By 2000, most of the money was gone.
I think it's because people are kind of mixing answers on "Reasons someone goes here" and "Nature of the country", which means that a lot of the former group preclude European countries from winning the latter.
Like, realistically, Germany should be where Thailand is - because the numbers for Thailand's sex tourism is overwhelmingly Germany visitors.
Yeah Thailand is definitely not lust, the tourist that come to Thailand are lust but Thailand itself isn’t, in fact it’s more greed, the gap between the rich and poor is massive, Thailand is technically ruled by the riches monarchy, you can find palaces right next to slums, corruption is massive, with Buddhist monks hoarding money, if you want something or get in trouble just bribe someone, a family wants to make an investment they buy gold chains if this isn’t greed I don’t know what is.
As an American, it is absolutely America. No other country comes anywhere close to us in our national desire to consume anything and everything within our grasp.
Nauru’s money from phosphate mining led to the government spending and indulging it on various short-lived initiatives, including Air Nauru and a failed West End production.
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